Wow, has technology come this far?

I was catching up on some blogs that I read and came across this fascinating post at the LongTail blog. The whole post is very interesting but the final paragraph is the real clincher. I have reproduced it here entirely.

Finally, a note about the photo at the top of this post. It’s a shot I took of Doug Trumbull, the legendary visual effects pioneer who did 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He’s narrating a slide show of shots from the 2001 set, but he isn’t actually at the podium. Instead, he appeared via hologram (he was actually at Siggraph in Boston). The picture doesn’t do it justice, but up close it was amazing.

Appearing via hologram? Wow!! And all this while, I just thought it happened in Star War movies…On a related note, one of the comments seem to indicate that this might not be true holographic projection.  

Back from Vegas…

Just returned back from Vegas where my wife presented a paper (dont ask me what) at the Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies conference (dont ask me what that is either:)). If you are interested or mildly curious, you can check out her blog here. I just tagged along and stayed in the hotel room most of the time reading some books and venturing out only for buffets.

On the work front, it is good to see that the Media Foundation Forum is getting a lot of good traction! In the beginning most of the questions we used to get were unrelated to Media Foundation but now we are seeing a lot of good pertinent questions. Not only that, we are also seeing participation by the developer community in answering some of the questions. Nice, very nice! Also, we have a whitepaper that talks about Migrating from DShow to Media Foundation up on the MSDN website and I will be posting a link to that whitepaper on the Media Foundation Forum on Monday.

In case you are wondering what my connection with all this is, I am one of the Program Managers on the Media Foundation team.